Going strong at 77, the Spanish singer finds powerful, fresh expression in concert with two rising stars and the S.F. Opera Orchestra.

The singers had it in a concert of Mozart’s sacred works.

American Bach Soloists’ Academy Festival Orchestra and Academy Singers join forces in a festive Handel mashup.

Merola Opera stages Stravinsky’s neoclassical masterwork, and succeeds in the end.

The West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s Third Piano Concerto dominates the program.

Brahms’s colossal Violin Concerto is bookended with bombastic works by Prokofiev and Andrew Norman.

The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.

The tenor interprets French songs of erotic longing and ecstasy with authority, nuance, and passion.

The mostly American program provided a fine platform for four emerging opera talents.